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Podcast: The Inner World of Filmmaking
Episode: The Crafted Performer: The World of the Puppeteer
Description: In this episode, we explore the wacky world of the Puppeteer with actor Michelan Sisti. He is best known as Michelangelo in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Charlene Sinclair on Dinosaurs. He shares what it’s like wearing heavy suits and how you really have to be in shape to move around in them.
Michelan Sisti (b. May 27, 1949) is an actor and puppeteer who was born into a US Army family stationed at San Juan, P.R.
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Michelan (Michael) began his professional acting career as Snoopy in “Your A Good Man Ch...